Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

I changed in a lot of ways, mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually.

We must be willing to take an honest look at ourselves and step out beyond our judgmental mind. It is here that we will have a life-altering shift in perception, an opening of our heart.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Science, which has transformed the material world, gives man the power of transforming himself.

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place.

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.

Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.

Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.

Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.

Without raising human consciousness, whatever we do in the world will only lead to more and more suffering.

Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.

The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is a spiral. We go up, but we go in circles. Eash time around, the view gets a little bit wider.

Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment.

Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.

To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.

I realize that the curriculum is my life on any given day. At this point, more than anything, my spiritual path means looking at every circumstance and trying to see my part in where it's good and where it's not so good.

May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.

In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.

Making conclusions about life is a sure way to deny yourself the possibility of a human being transforming himself into the Divine.

The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody - except yourself.

This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation.

Sannyas is celebration of life, and sin is natural: natural in the sense that you are unconscious - what else can you do? In unconsciousness, sin is bound to happen. Sin simply means that you don't know what you are doing, you are unaware, so whatsoever you do goes wrong. But to recognize that "I am a sinner" is the beginning of a great pilgrimage. To recognize that "I am a sinner" is the beginning of real virtue. To see that "I am ignorant" is the first glimpse of wisdom.